Manufacturing

A European project has been set up to further improve the reliability of electronics. Called Intelligent Reliability 4.0 (iRel40), it is coordinated by Infineon and has 75 science and industry partners from 13 countries. “Enhancing electronics performance through miniaturisation and integrating more and more functions is progressing steadily,” said Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss. “Performance and complexity are increasing, as the ...

Pat Gelsinger (pictured) spooked Wall Street on Friday by saying he’s committed to Intel regaining process technology leadership when he takes over on February 15th. “Clearly, we’re not interested in just closing gaps,” said Gelsinger, “we’re interested in resuming that position of the unquestioned leader in process technology, and that’s our commitment.” The financial community had pushed up Intel’s shares on ...

German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier has sent a letter to Taiwan’s Minister for Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua asking her to help solve the chip shortage being suffered by the German car makers. “I would be pleased if you could take on this matter and underline the importance of additional semiconductor capacities for the German automotive industry to TSMC,” wrote Altmaier. TSMC ...

Samsung is planning to build a $10 billion 3nm fab alongside its existing fab in Austin Texas, reports Bloomberg. The plan involves financial help from the new US administration which is said to be currently under negotiation. The plan is to start building this year with manufacturing equipment to be installed in 2022 and first wafers to be run in ...

Infra-red detectors produced by Leonardo in Southampton are currently travelling through space with Bennu, the 2bn year old asteroid, which is calculated to have a 1 in 3,000 chance of hitting Earth late in the 22nd century, according to the company. Arizona State University (ASU) selected Leonardo’s infra-red sensors (pictured) for their Osiris-Rex thermal emission spectrometer (OTES) instrument, which allowed ...

UK specialist connector maker Intelliconnect (Europe) has moved to a larger facility at the Corby Innovation Hub following 30% sales growth in 2020. “After a year of exceptional sales growth, we have relocated our sales, engineering and production facilities to larger premises and will be recruiting new staff at all levels including offering apprenticeships,” said MD Roy Phillips. The 6,400ft2 ...

Californian public display maker Ideum has chosen Zytronic of Newcastle to supply touch screen sensors for its next-generation Pano Duo 49” interactive touch table. Zytronic’s proprietary technology, branded ZyBrid, is multi-touch projected capacitive. “The crucial difference between the first generation Pano Duo 49” table and Ideum’s new one is the transition from an infra-red touch frame to Zytronic’s all-glass printed ...

Dublin-based Benetel has integrated its Radio Unit with Radisys’ 5G NR OpenRAN software for OpenRAN deployments in communication, industrial and private networks. The two companies have also made a licensing agreement for Radisys’ LTE software to allow its distribution with Benetel’s eNodeB radio platforms. Pre-integrated, the hardware and software can be deployed in both non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) 5G ...

Later this week, Imec is showing how photolithography can be used to pattern organic semiconductors and the cathode in an OLED-display stack which has the potential to eliminate the use of fine metal masks (FMM). The demonstration is important for display manufacturers as photolithography enables higher resolutions, or an increased transparency of the cathode, to accommodate for display-integrated sensors. Imec ...

Canon Ecology Industry has developed two types of 3d printing filament, made 100% from parts of discarded multi-function printer/scanners. These are the first in-house developed products from the company, which was set up in Japan to meet the sustainable development goals of Canon by recycling or arrange re-use of products made by the company. The two materials are: PC (polycarbonate) ...